Astoria Software, Collabis Partner to Accelerate Astoria On-Demand Implementations, Streamline Customer Workload.Partnership Brings Collabis' Expertise in Technical Documentation, Authoring Tools, and Astoria On-Demand to Help Astoria Customers Manage Workload, Reduce Costs SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Forbes Global 2000 manufacturers have a new alternative for meeting the constant struggle to cost-effectively manage their fluctuating fluc·tu·ate v. fluc·tu·at·ed, fluc·tu·at·ing, fluc·tu·ates v.intr. 1. To vary irregularly. See Synonyms at swing. 2. To rise and fall in or as if in waves; undulate. v. technical documentation workloads. Astoria Software and technical documentation services provider, Collabis Corporation, today announced a partnership that further expands the Astoria On-Demand universe to include a professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization. Now, customers can turn to Collabis for help accelerating their Astoria On-Demand implementations and streamlining their product documentation workloads. Astoria On-Demand customers who engage Collabis will find the company has a wealth of expertise in Astoria's on-demand solution for structured content management as well as expertise with a variety of content authoring tools, including Arbortext, WordML, and XMetaL. Collabis is also highly skilled in technical writing and authoring to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. The name of the architecture can be explained as follows:
v. aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments v.tr. 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: their internal documentation teams when necessary, thereby reducing overall documentation costs. "Even with optimum solutions such as Astoria On-Demand, sometimes our customers' workloads exceed their capacity. It's just the nature of product documentation," said Dan Ortega, vice president of marketing for Astoria Software. "Partnering with Collabis gives those customers access to people who are already experts in the authoring tools, Astoria On-Demand, and DITA-based authoring and technical writing. On the other hand, customers who are in the initial stages of an Astoria On-Demand deployment will find this partnership can help them get up to speed that much faster. Customers don't have to slow down to ramp up Ramp Up To increase a company's operations in anticipation of increased demand. Notes: A company might 'ramp up' operations if they just signed a contract creating substantially more demand for their product. See also: Demand, Economies of Scale ." Pavi Sandhu, founder of Collabis, said, "What we bring to the table is our expertise in technical documentation and flexible augmentation AUGMENTATION, old English law. The name of a court erected by Henry VIII., which was invested with the power of determining suits and controversies relating to monasteries and abbey lands. of in-house teams. When a company's documentation workload spikes, we can respond promptly to help balance that load with highly skilled personnel. When the workload returns to normal, we can end the engagement until we're needed again. We provide flexible utilization of resources to meet variable demand. It's an effective way for customers to meet demand while managing costs." For more information, please visit http://www.astoriasoftware.com and http://www.collabis.com. About Collabis Collabis Corporation specializes in providing outsourced technical writing and documentation services to technology and manufacturing companies. Collabis' deliverables include product manuals (such as installation, administration, and user guides), online help, API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. documentation, training materials, data sheets, and white papers for software and hardware products. The company's skilled technical writers, editors, and project managers can complement existing technical documentation resources, so clients get excellent work at a very compelling cost. Collabis has a tried and tested process for engaging with each client's development team to understand its products and technology, gather relevant information, and create high-quality deliverables, with minimal management overhead. Collabis is based in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.collabis.com. About Astoria Software Astoria Software drives efficiencies in dynamic product documentation with on-demand delivery of structured content management. GE Healthcare GE Healthcare is a $18 billion (USD) unit of General Electric (GE). It employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. GE Healthcare is the first GE business segment headquartered outside the United States. , Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. , and other Forbes Global 2000 manufacturers rely on Astoria to meet rigorous market demands - increasing product volumes, accelerating time-to-market, and concurrent global customization. Astoria On-Demand reduces documentation costs up to 90% and compresses product launch cycles from months to weeks. Astoria Software is based in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . For more information, visit www.astoriasoftware.com. Related Links News Release: "Astoria Software Leads On-Demand Revolution in Dynamic Product Documentation" http://www.astoriasoftware.com/news_events/press_releases/ 052107.asp Astoria On-Demand Product Information http://www.astoriasoftware.com/products/ Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA): http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita (Due to their length, some URLs may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) |
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